This avenue separates the district of Campanar Benicalap. Campanar name is thought to derive from camp (field) because when Jaime I donated these lands in the thirteenth century, there was no bell in place.
This avenue separates the district of Campanar Benicalap. Campanar name is thought to derive from camp (field) because when Jaime I donated these lands in the thirteenth century, there was no bell in place.
The gardens pay tribute to the book's Dream Polifilo, Renaissance work of Francesco Colonna.
It also has a square pond and a playground.
The gardens have a great diversity of trees, cypresses, orange trees, hackberry, tipuanas, laurels, plane trees, etc.
It also has a small artificial mound. It is the first tree planted in the garden, in 1998, which was an oak.
The origin of this neighborhood was a group of farmhouses of the Muslim era.
The old core of Campanar consists of the church square and adjacent streets. It was independent municipality from 1836 until its annexation to Valencia in 1897. It is currently surrounded by expressways and tall buildings.
The church is 1507, being renovated in the Baroque. Its bell tower is already the eighteenth century.
Their houses correspond to the type of house orchard farmers the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These consisted of a wide door to driveway and horses.
The old center of this neighborhood, once the garden disappeared around him, retains the appearance of a sausage village within the city.
This is the first bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava for the city of Valencia. It was completed in 1989.
In the corners, on top of blocks of concrete, it has four abstract sculptures. It also has four ramps that communicate with the bed of the ancient river, today turned into garden.
The bridge should be reflected in a round pond that was never built.
The park is designed as a project that, in the future, joining the natural bed of the River Turia with the artificial deviation thereof. Data 2004.
This park has an artificial mound that rises about 15 m. and serves as a lookout over the lake.